Critical Campus Sustainabilities

​Dr. Flora Lu is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an ecological anthropologist specializing in conservation politics, environmental justice, political ecology and Indigenous environmental stewardship. She served as the Provost of College Nine and John R. Lewis College from 2014 - 2023, during which time she helped establish the People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) and the Apprenticeship in Community Engaged Research or (H)ACER Program. She earned her doctorate in Ecology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her A.B. in Human Biology from Stanford University. Dr. Emily Murai is a Lecturer in the Environmental Studies Department and College Nine at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. She has been teaching courses in first-year writing, writing-across-the-curriculum/writing-in-the-disciplines (WAC/WID), and the environmental humanities/social sciences for more than two decades. She emphasizes holistic teaching and learning, innovative pedagogies and centering students’ backgrounds and lived experiences in her work. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Minnesota, an MA in Sociology from the New School for Social Research, and a BA in American Studies and Psychology from UC Santa Cruz.

• Part1. Chapter1. Inclusive Sustainability: The Emergence and Vision of PoCSC.- Chapter2. Student Voices on Environmental Spaces and Experiences in Higher Education.- Chapter3. Teaching Critical Sustainability Studies: Towards a Relational Pedagogy.- Part2. UCSC Students’ Sustainability Perceptions, Understandings, and Values.- Chapter4. Student Understandings of Sustainability.- Chapter 5. The Environmental Belief Paradox.- Chapter6. Environmental Sustainability and Epidemiological Struggle: Student Experiences of COVID-19.- Chapter7. Critical Environmentalisms: Overcoming Institutional Obstacles to Meet Students’ Demands for Sustainability Curricula and Action.- Part3. Community-Engaged Critical Sustainabilities.- Chapter8. Developing a Praxis of Loving Relations: Lessons from a Community-University Partnership that Centers Undergraduate Research and Learning.- Chapter9. The Calabasas Community Garden: Sustaining Community through Meaningful Relationships.- Chapter10. Environmental Justice Youth Leadership in Salinas Valley, CA.